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MS. MAGAZINE | Inside the Jane Club’s New Orleans Essence Festival Pop-Up
Earlier this month, the Essence Festival made space for a whole lot of Black Girl Magic in New Orleans—and Carmen talked to the women who brought the Los Angeles-based Jane Club to the city for a space custom-built for VIPs and distinguished guests.
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MS. MAGAZINE | Stories from the What Women Want Campaign
“As you get older,” the award-winning author told Carmen at a Hilton Foundation event, “you’re looking at your bag of fucks to give, and it’s empty, so you just say what she would say.”
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MS. MAGAZINE | Q&A with Documentary Filmmaker Greta Schiller
It’s been 50 years since the Stonewall Riots and 35 years since Schiller’s documentary about LGBTQ life before them. She talked to Carmen about what happened before “Before Stonewall”—and what lessons she has carried with her since.
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MS. MAGAZINE | Reporting Live from the Global Women’s Rights Awards Red Carpet
Feminists celebrated the growing momentum for women’s equality worldwide, from the menstrual equity movement taking shape across the globe to the re-invigorated push for ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment sweeping the U.S., at the Feminist Majority Foundation’s 14th annual Global Women’s Rights Awards. Carmen was live on the red carpet, speaking with honorees and…
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MS. MAGAZINE | How State Lawmakers are Responding to Anti-Abortion Laws
Carmen reports on a scathing statement signed by 373 state legislators from 46 states denouncing the extreme abortion bans being passed by state lawmakers across the country.
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GIRLBOSS | How To Build Feminism Into Your Business Plan
If you have entrepreneurial aspirations, then you have the power to make a better workplace possible—just by committing to a business plan that mirrors your beliefs and works to support not only you, but also those who you employ.
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MS. MAGAZINE: Q&A with Musician, Conductor and AYS “Year of the Women” Champion Carlos Izcaray
Carmen talked to the trailblazing movement leader about prison abolition, non-reformance reform and what she’s focused on in the midst of the 2020 elections.
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MS. MAGAZINE: Q&A with “Gloria: A Life” Director Diane Paulus
Paulus spoke to Carmen about what drew her to the project—and how it challenged and changed her.
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BUZZFEED | I Didn’t Always Know I Was Gay
I’m at BuzzFeed today, sharing my own story of not always “knowing I was gay”—and how I figured it out.
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BITCH MEDIA | Artists Sew a Giant Memorial for Survivors of Sexual Violence
For a few hours on Saturday, March 1, 100 red quilts covered in words lay over the west lawn of the US Capitol. Together, the bright squares formed the first public display of a project called The Monument Quilt, a crowd-sourced story collection and art project about sexual violence.
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